The Pulse of Entertainment: Pulitzer Prize Nominated Lauren Coyle Rosen Debuts with ‘Purify Flame' Alternative
Pop Album
by Dr. Eunice Moseley
(May 2, 2025) - "It was if the music was working through me,"
said Pulitzer Prize nominee Lauren Coyle Rosen about her debut album "Purify
Flame". "I just opened up...was in an altered state like I was co-creating. I'm a poet, I wrote the
words without understanding what it was talking about. I'd say words and then heard this melody."
Lauren, a resident of Washington, DC and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comes with a background as an instructor
in cultural anthology at Princeton and Harvard, so when she was moved to record music, as all do nowadays, she started working
with musicians online (remotely).
"After (writing) 20 - 25 songs I started working with musicians remotely all over the world,"
Rosen said as we talked about her creation process for "Purify Flame". "The title? It's a provocative title...I
realized true transformation comes with going within the fire."
The "Purified Flame" Alternative/Pop project
offers 12 songs and will be available on most major digital platforms May 12, 2025. Her Pulitzer Prize nomination was garnered
for her book "Hannibal Lokumbe" (Columbia University Press) on the career and life of Jazz legend Hannibal Lokumbe,
which he co-authored. The book was also nominated for a National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
"I was
in Washington, DC when I heard (about the Pulitzer Prize nomination)," Lauren said when I asked. "I was preparing
for another book ‘Law in Light' (on the U.S. and Ghana relationship) and I was emailed from Columbia University Press
that I was nominated for this book. It was released in November, and I heard in late summer!"
"Hannibal is this
amazing composer, a Jazz legend. He left it to spend time with his kids and started composing symphonies. He followed his
spiritual connection," Lauren pointed out. "He gets his assignments from his creator."
Lauren Coyle Rosen said
Hannibal's big move from being a musician on the Jazz circuit to living his dream of composing symphonies motivated her to
do the same.
"It help me give my soul permission to do what ‘my' spirit wanted me to do," she affirmed.
"I was a professor of cultural anthropology at the time I met him through my husband. The book came out of that. Teaching
has its own culture...I was able to break from that and embrace this."
As a professor Lauren was awarded the David
A Gardner Magic Innovation Grant from the Humanities Council. After speaking with her she will make such milestones in the
music industry. www.LaurenCoyleRosen.com
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Dr.
Eunice Moseley has an estimated weekly readership of over one million with The Pulse of Entertainment. She is
also a Business Management/Public Relations Strategist and Consultant at Freelance Associates and is Promotions Director (at-large)
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